Taki Taki

Special qualities

Broadsides from the pirate captain of the Jet Set

Athens

The city of Pallas Athena is in the midst of a great rebirth, as if Zeus himself had decreed it. Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would have bet my last euro against Athens meeting the Olympic challenge, and I would have lost. Big time. The place is bustling and busy, sunny as hell but easy on the humidity, and the girls – yes, young Greek women – are suddenly among the most attractive in Europe. I kid you not. Greek girls were always among the sexiest in the world – there was no such thing as a Greek female who was lousy in bed – but they were also quite ugly, short, fat and terribly hairy. Believe it or not, and here Zeus must have pulled quite a trick, they have been transformed overnight, and are now tall, chic, slim, with lovely legs and – hopefully – still great in the sack. (What an irony it would be if the newly beautiful lost their special quality. That’s what I would call a real Greek tragedy.)


My friend Leonidas Goulandris, son of Professor Yohannes Goulandris of Heidelberg university, and not to be confused with his namesake uncle, the symbolic and religious painter of luminous colours and of material contempt, Leonidas Goulandris, insists that Greek girls are as horny as they are because of the steady diet of sugarless baklava, pistachios and retsina. I ain’t so sure. I think it’s the climate. No sooner had I landed, I was taking precautions against prostate cancer non-stop.

Be that as it may, how can one dislike a city where a demonstration takes place daily. The first one I encountered on my way in from the airport were the prostitutes, gathered outside the Interior Ministry screaming abuse against the proposed reforms.

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